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To think people are deluded when they say ‘when this is all over’

235 replies

Lannaaa · 26/12/2020 21:12

Not a conspiracy theorist! At all. But this is never going to be over. It really grates on me when people say this...like there’s a day where suddenly all is ok. This is going to go on for at least another year and will be here in some way or other indefinitely. It makes me sad that people seem to really believe that their freedoms will resume at some point. Maybe many many years down the line but not soon. Not sure where the ‘when this is all over’ even came from?!

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Iminaglasscaseofemotion · 26/12/2020 21:52

Whats really getting on my nerves os people who keep saying "I can't wait to see the back of 2020", as if on the firstbon January things are going to be better. 🤔 eh no, the kids are now off school for an extra 2 weeks (I'm fine with this though. Infact it should probably be longer), we are still in a teir 4 area for the next 3 weeks, so I would love to know what everyone thinks its going to be so much better in a weeks time.

Wowzel · 26/12/2020 21:53

We're about to start the whole thing again from the beginning

Positive - vaccination

Negative - the public are not behind us this time and we are getting abused by people about the wait in ED etc, just like we used to

TomasinaTiers · 26/12/2020 21:53

I also think we’ll be in lockdown on and off from now on

There won’t be a “going back to normal”

For me it is better to try and come to terms with this than to deny it

The world has reached a level of overpopulation that means we’ll be having these viruses (and worse ones) over and over

With hindsight we have just been very very lucky until 2020

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Lannaaa · 26/12/2020 21:54

Ok never ending is dramatic, I accept. But of course it’s going to be like this for a year at least. Even if the uk gets sorted in a year, which it won’t, it doesn’t mean we can freely travel or mix properly and there is going to be a lot of picking up the pieces from the destroyed economy.

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FourTeaFallOut · 26/12/2020 21:55

Nobody, and I'd guess that that's a literal nobody, thinks it will be better in week. Just that the year, as a whole, will be better than this year, as a whole.

Coriandersucks · 26/12/2020 21:55

Obviously people don’t think things will remarkably get better on 1 January Hmm it’s just a saying - 2020 has been shit and the hope is that this time next year things won’t be so bad. Don’t take things so literally.

RichardMarxisinnocent · 26/12/2020 21:55

@southeastdweller

I agree. In terms of the economy and mental health, the consequences of Covid are always going to be with us. The government have fucked up so much so why shouldn’t they also fuck up the roll out of the vaccine? How they’ve very quickly taken away our human rights to assist with some phoney war makes me worried that household restrictions will be with us until they think the virus is eliminated, which it won’t ever be
You seriously believe that mixing households won't ever be allowed again? That people will be banned from dating and starting relationships? How exactly will the human race continue if people aren't allowed to start relationships?
Newwayofthinking · 26/12/2020 21:56

I can't/won't take another year like this one.

I am hoping things will be better by easter

weddingplanning15 · 26/12/2020 21:56

Wow what a depressing post op.

Of course this will end, there have been pandemics in the past which have ended

MadameBlobby · 26/12/2020 21:57

@Lannaaa

Ok never ending is dramatic, I accept. But of course it’s going to be like this for a year at least. Even if the uk gets sorted in a year, which it won’t, it doesn’t mean we can freely travel or mix properly and there is going to be a lot of picking up the pieces from the destroyed economy.
But the economy will just be further destroyed by more lockdowns.

Once the numbers settle and the NHS is no longer at risk of being overwhelmed what will be the need for restrictions to continue? Pandemics have always happened and then ended.

southeastdweller · 26/12/2020 21:58

Sorry, wasn't clear. I'm saying that I think household restrictions won't be on the cards for ages yet, not until the government roll out the vaccine efficiently.

BlairCorneliaWaldorf · 26/12/2020 21:59

I think if they close the schools from January that will be a turning point. Putting it bluntly, I think a lot of people will sacrifice their ageing parents for their children to have an education and a life.

southeastdweller · 26/12/2020 21:59

MN needs an edit function.

I meant household mixing won't be on the cards for ages.

RichardMarxisinnocent · 26/12/2020 21:59

@TomasinaTiers

I also think we’ll be in lockdown on and off from now on

There won’t be a “going back to normal”

For me it is better to try and come to terms with this than to deny it

The world has reached a level of overpopulation that means we’ll be having these viruses (and worse ones) over and over

With hindsight we have just been very very lucky until 2020

You think we'll be in lockdown on and off forever? People won't put up with that. People will gradually get to the limit of what they are able and prepared to put up with then will give up. Once everyone gives up you don't have a lockdown anymore.
RickiTarr · 26/12/2020 22:01

There will be a point when the crisis is over, even if Covid 19 stays with us long term in the same was as polio or smallpox lingered as an infectious disease.

We do all need to try to be less pessimist for t sake of our collective mental health. There is every reason to be hopeful.

LimitIsUp · 26/12/2020 22:01

@Thatsnotmynamename

Fgs. Enough already. Just as much as one knows that it will 'all be over' by summer, you don't know that it will go on for many, many years. Lots of people are really struggling and who cares if they think/ hope it will be over soon and then are wrong. At least they have hope.

There is absolutely no reason not to believe that with vaccines rolled out to the most vulnerable, plus care workers, along with continuing advances in treatments, that within the next 6-12 months Covid won't get to a similar level of severity as flu, which kills numerous people every year (including children) but at a level which we are 'happy' with as a society to live as normal.

I think a more important question to ask is why you feel the need to start yet another thread to bring everyone down and spread misery at what is about to be the most depressing tine of the year anyway, when actually - you don't KNOW anything.

.^ This. Emphatically!
Vindresi2020 · 26/12/2020 22:02

Restrictions you have to police to enforce have already failed- As soon as you lose adherence to the rules and compliance slips, the governments policy no longer works

PaddyF0dder · 26/12/2020 22:04

@Lannaaa

You are aware that there have been other pandemics before, right?

Christ.

Horehound · 26/12/2020 22:04

Well it will when most people are vaccinated

Chloemol · 26/12/2020 22:04

Enough, stop being goady you know exactly what they mean

Dongdingdong · 26/12/2020 22:05

Putting it bluntly, I think a lot of people will sacrifice their ageing parents for their children to have an education and a life.

Vile post alert...

BonnieDundee · 26/12/2020 22:05

Well Priti Patel was on the radio today saying once we get everybody vaccinated we can get back to some sort of new normal which I thought was fairly depressing

RichardMarxisinnocent · 26/12/2020 22:05

@southeastdweller

MN needs an edit function.

I meant household mixing won't be on the cards for ages.

So your post suggesting households would never be able to mix again (because the government won't lift them until it thinks the virus is eliminated) was a complete exaggeration?
AcornAutumn · 26/12/2020 22:05

@Coriandersucks

Not a conspiracy theorist but... what do you think will happen then op? Our freedoms are being removed? Health passports? What next, microchips? Give over. Life will have noticeably improved in 12 months time - it won’t be over for a while but it will improve. It’s a pandemic, not agenda fucking 21.
Um..our freedoms are removed

Health passports are generating a lot of commercial interest

To the poster who wants to hug their parents - hug them!

Burnthurst187 · 26/12/2020 22:06

The way we're living right now will end but it will be gradually faded out. I've heard and read some ppl think we'll be back to normal by March, I think these ppl will be in for a big surprise

I don't think 2021 will be that different to this year. The Spanish flu one hundred years ago was around for two years and came in four waves

Covid is here to stay but hopefully what will happen is that we learn to live with it like the flu. I read recently that the flu as we know it came from the Spanish flu. This is why covid is here now for good, it will change year on year but it will always be here